Inhalation device, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

Abstract

An inhalation device uses a base substance to generate aerosol to be inhaled by a user. The inhalation device includes a storage unit that stores information, a communication unit that receives information from another device when a first condition is satisfied, and a control unit that causes the storage unit to store the information received from the other device when a second condition is satisfied.

The invention claimed is: 
     
         1 . An inhaler device that generates, using a substrate, an aerosol to be inhaled by a user, the inhaler device comprising:
 a memory that stores information;   a communicator that receives information from another device in a case where a first condition is met; and   a controller that causes the memory to store information received from the other device in a case where a second condition is met,   wherein the inhaler device temporarily stores, with a time limit imposed, the information received from the other device in a case where the first condition is met, resets the time limit added to the information temporarily stored and received from the other device in a case where the second condition is met before the time limit expires, and deletes the information temporarily stored and received from the other device in a case where the time limit has expired without the second condition being met.   
     
     
         2 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein the first condition includes wireless communication being established between the inhaler device and the other device. 
     
     
         3 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein the second condition includes wireless communication being disconnected and thereafter re-established between the inhaler device and the other device. 
     
     
         4 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein the second condition includes a predetermined user operation being performed on at least any one of the inhaler device or the other device. 
     
     
         5 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein wireless communication performed between the inhaler device and the other device is short-range wireless communication. 
     
     
         6 . The inhaler device according to  claim 5 , wherein the short-range wireless communication is near field communication (NFC). 
     
     
         7 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein the inhaler device stores, in a volatile storage medium, the information received from the other device in a case where the first condition is met, and stores, in a non-volatile storage medium, the information received from the other device and stored in the volatile storage medium in a case where the second condition is met. 
     
     
         8 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein the information received from the other device includes identification information of the substrate. 
     
     
         9 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein the information received from the other device includes profile information indicating a profile in which an operation is defined that the inhaler device performs to heat the substrate in order to generate the aerosol. 
     
     
         10 . The inhaler device according to  claim 9 , wherein the profile information is identification information indicating the profile. 
     
     
         11 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein the information received from the other device includes identification information indicating a combination of identification information of the substrate and profile information indicating a profile in which an operation is defined that the inhaler device performs to heat the substrate in order to generate the aerosol. 
     
     
         12 . The inhaler device according to  claim 11 , wherein the information received from the other device includes path information indicating a path along which the information received from the other device has been transmitted or received. 
     
     
         13 . The inhaler device according to  claim 12 , wherein the path information includes identification information indicating the inhaler device, through which the information received from the other device has been routed. 
     
     
         14 . The inhaler device according to  claim 12 , wherein the path information includes identification information indicating the user, who uses the inhaler device, through which the information received from the other device has been routed. 
     
     
         15 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein the information received from the other device includes number-of-times information representing a number of times the information received from the other device has been transmitted or received. 
     
     
         16 . The inhaler device according to  claim 15 , wherein the number-of-times information includes a number of inhaler devices through which the information received from the other device has been routed. 
     
     
         17 . The inhaler device according to  claim 15 , wherein the number-of-times information includes a number of users who use inhaler devices through which the information received from the other device has been routed. 
     
     
         18 . A system comprising:
 a plurality of inhaler devices that generate, using substrates, aerosols to be inhaled by users, wherein   an inhaler device among the inhaler devices receives information from another inhaler device among the inhaler devices in a case where a first condition is met, and   the inhaler device stores the information received from the other inhaler device in a case where a second condition is met,   wherein the inhaler device temporarily stores, with a time limit imposed, the information received from the other device in a case where the first condition is met, resets the time limit added to the information temporarily stored and received from the other device in a case where the second condition is met before the time limit expires, and deletes the information temporarily stored and received from the other device in a case where the time limit has expired without the second condition being met.   
     
     
         19 . A non-transitory computer readable medium having a program stored therein, the program for causing a computer that controls an inhaler device that generates, using a substrate, an aerosol to be inhaled by a user to execute:
 receiving information from another device in a case where a first condition is met,   storing the information received from the other device in a case where a second condition is met, and   temporarily storing, with a time limit imposed, the information received from the other device in a case where the first condition is met, resets the time limit added to the information temporarily stored and received from the other device in a case where the second condition is met before the time limit expires, and deletes the information temporarily stored and received from the other device in a case where the time limit has expired without the second condition being met.